Rockwood School District

After an all-time-high nearly 74 percent of voters approved the Rockwood School District’s Proposition 4, a $68.9 million bond issue, on April 7, the Board of Education on April 9 approved the first five contracts for bond issue work, among a number of projects set to get underway this summer.

Financial wizard It takes years to build up the financial savvy to navigate the markets, but Crestview Middle eighth-grade student Susie Saxon is decades ahead of the game. She competed against more than 20,000 students in the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Foundation’s InvestWrite essay competition this year and placed an impressive ninth in the nation. InvestWrite challenges ...

Parkway Central Middle and West Middle were awarded cash prizes from GenYouth Foundation, Shop ‘n Save and Borton & Sons for their participation in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program. Central Middle was awarded a check for $2,500 and West Middle received a check for $3,750.

The Parkway-Rockwood Adult Education and Literacy Department is offering free programs in Basic Education/High School Equivalency Exam Preparation, Citizenship and Civics, and English as a Second Language.

Monique Merritt from Lafayette High has been named the local winner of the Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest. Merritt was chosen from entries submitted to Barnes & Noble - Chesterfield. Merritt was nominated by Massiel Islas-Malanco.